You may soon be able to give the gift of crypto with a "crypto-linked gift card". It's like a regular gift card, for use with selected retailers, except the recipient will never be sure how much it will be worth one day to the next.
These gift cards are being launched by a company called Giftcoin this August, and essentially each one is a voucher for a big name brand except the value of the card is set by the current value of whichever cryptocurrency is linked to it.
For example, you might buy a Starbucks gift card that's backed by bitcoin, meaning if bitcoin's price goes up, so too does the value of your gift card. $10 could become $100.
But so too could bitcoin's value plummet and your gift card with it: $10 becomes $1. No iced white chocolate mocha for you.
"You don’t have to own any crypto, understand crypto, or have any kind of crypto trading account—nada," Giftcoin says." You can just buy a Giftcoin card and then go shop, and splurge all you like with the extra money the card...
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